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That's enough about layout.

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Let's get to what
Visual Studio is really about.

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Trading apps and programs.

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Visual Studio is a project centric IDE,
which means all the code and

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other files that make up your app
are organized into a project.

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When starting on a new app,

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the first thing you need to do is
create a project in Visual Studio.

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Let's do that now.

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To create a new project, click on file
then mouse over new and click project.

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This opens the new project dialog.

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What you see listed here
are project templates.

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In visual studio all new projects
are created from a template.

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The template provides a starting point for
your project.

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You'll see what this means
once we create a project.

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Templates are organized based
on programming language.

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So if I click on visual C# we'll see

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all the different types of projects
that we can make using C#.

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You can reduce the list even more
by clicking on a subcategory.

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Remember in the Installer where we
could customize the installation by

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adding additional features and tools.

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Well, it's all right if you chose
not to install those things.

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You can do it here if you want.

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I don't have the universal
Windows tools available, but

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I can install them here if I want.

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If I double-click on this,

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Visual Studio will install everything I
need to create universal Windows apps.

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Once it's installed, I'll see even
more templates to choose from here.

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There are lots of other project types.

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For instance,
you might want to create a web app.

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You'll find a template for that under Web.

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If you click on the template,

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you'll get a brief description of what the
template is used for on the right side.

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As you can see the ASP.net web
application project template

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can be used to create webform,
MVC, or web applications.

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As you can see,
there are lots of project types.

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I could teach a whole
course on each one of them.

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For now, let's create a project
from one of the simplest templates.

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In the C# Basics Treehouse course,

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I create a simple Windows
console application.

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You'll find the template for this under
Classic Desktop in the Windows category.

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To create a Windows console
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I'll select the Console Application
template by clicking on it once.

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I'll give this project a name.

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The name entered here becomes
the default namespace for the code.

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So it's best to pick a name that's
formatted like a namespace name.

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That is, CamelCase with each word
capitalized and no spaces between words.

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The name also becomes the name
of the assembly that's produced.

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You notice that by convention,

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most C# assemblies are named
after their namespace name.

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I'm going to name this one
Treehouse.SimpleConsuleApp.

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We can pick a directory for
the project files and code to go here.

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You might be wondering what a solution is.

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A solution is a collection of projects.

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Most apps, other than the most basic ones,
are made up of more than one project.

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At the very least, you'll probably have a
separate project that contains your tests.

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If you are going to
have multiple projects,

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you probably want them all
in the same directory.

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In that case, you should check the create
directory for solution check box.

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The solution name field here lets
you decide what you want that

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top level directory named.

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This add to source control check box tells

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Visual Studio that we want it
to use a version control system.

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We can pick which system we
want to use after clicking OK.

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The basic install of Visual Studio
lets you decide between

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team foundation server or GIT.

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For this workshop,
I'll leave this unchecked.

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Finally, we can pick which version
of the .NET Framework to use.

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In most cases, we want to use the latest.

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Now I can click OK to create the project.